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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rambi who wrote (51643)	6/20/2002 6:08:09 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 82486

Morality, that is a toughy since those of us in the normal to high range disagree quite profoundly about morality and I think we are some of the few who actually think about it Unfortunately the problem many people with mental retardation have is with impulse control. Impulse control appears to be one of the keys to "moral" behavior. Can we defer our gratification to make sure our actions are acceptable. Many people know that murder is wrong, but commit murder anyway, because they act on emotions they cannot control. Are they immoral because they do not control what is uncontrollable for them? I don't think so. They just are not well constructed people. MY son lacks impulse control when he has his tantrums. I could easily imagine him stabbing someone, and then deeply regretting it later. He wouldn't have meant to do it. But the person would be just as dead. Impulse control. It's where the law and genetics intersect in a big way.